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Hollywood, California -- Former superstar Cher has fallen victim to a bogus Tweet, which announced that she had passed away last Thursday. It appears that the 65-year-old singer/actress has no way of proving that she is indeed still alive.
“Cher hasn’t done anything worthwhile since giving permission to Chastity to become Chaz,” said a leading film producer who asked to remain anonymous. “Now that’s entertainment.
“But as far as her own music and movie career is concerned, Cher has been code blue for years.”
A publicist speaking on behalf of Cher protested that today’s reality stars are granted celebrity status without any significant achievements or noticeable talent.
“Oh, I didn’t realize that Cher’s last name is Kardashian,” the producer responded.
Upon hearing of her own untimely demise, Cher checked herself into Mount Sinai Hospital for tests. But the medical staff there kept busy finding ways to ignore the former star.
“We’ve moved on to acts like Madonna and Gaga,” a hospital spokeswoman said. “It’s time for Cher to move on too.”
Cher has requested an open coffin, according to her publicist, “so that her few remaining fans can enjoy her haunting beauty until the very end. I guess this beats skiing into a tree.”Hollywood, California -- Former superstar Cher has fallen victim to a bogus Tweet,... more
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What is wrong with Hollywood either they are running out of scripts or they are hell bent on ruing classic films by remaking them. The studios pumped out two duds this summer with a Conan Remake and a Fright night 3D remake. According to Deadline.com now these suits are preparing to do one of the most unholy moves since Eve feed Adam the apple a Scare face remake SAY IT AINT SO.. you stupid bastards... this will not be on our viewing options list and we encourage you to stay away from this blasphemy as well. "Say hello to my little fukc outta here Hollywood.
Full story & video at the link below
http://www.waneenterprises.com/news/785What is wrong with Hollywood either they are running out of scripts or they are hell... more
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Hey, look who it is! It’s Arnold and he’s back, and with more energy! This time, he’s accompanied by a groovy disco-funk backdrop and teaches us the proper rhythm to his muscle-strengthening push-ups. Luke Million makes this track real fun. Get those hand-claps going!
This piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, a photo-gallery and a music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/arnold-gets-cheeky-pumping-iron-to-disco-funk-tunes/Hey, look who it is! It’s Arnold and he’s back, and with more energy! This... more
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is a man whose a personality has always been driven to achieve international notoriety. Immediately after arriving in the United States, he curried the favors of anyone who could promote his ambitions, not infrequently extremely wealthy older men who were infatuated with his sturdy, muscular physique.
Another champion of his hunger for fame was Robert Mapplethorpe, the openly gay, lascivious photographer who was infamous, in part, for his body of porn/art photography. Mapplethorpe, enamored of Schwarzenegger, was quick to become one of the growing group of people who lionized and fawned over Arnold. And Schwarzenegger was quick to nourish those feelings in order to further his own career. The motivation for this posting is not simply a prurient one. Rather, it is to provide an illustration of one man’s calculated, seductive enshrinement of the worship of Flesh and Muscle.
This piece includes several high-resolution vintage photographs, a photo-gallery and the 1977 documentary, “Pumping Iron.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2005/12/30/arnold-schwarzenegger-baring-allalmost/?trashed=1Arnold Schwarzenegger is a man whose a personality has always been driven to achieve... more
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There are many rumors and question that everyone has about the Famous Nobodies. Are they true or not? Well in this video they answer all the questions and clear up any rumors thats out there!
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Tweet NBucketTV: @NBucketTVThere are many rumors and question that everyone has about the Famous Nobodies. Are... more
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Gaby Rodriguez would worry whenever anyone asked to touch her baby bump.
It wasn't because she felt shy or embarrassed. It was because the bulge -- fashioned from wire mesh and cotton quilt batting -- didn't actually contain a baby.
For the past 61/2 months -- the bulk of her senior year at Toppenish High School -- the 17-year-old A-student faked her own pregnancy.
Only a handful of people -- her mother, boyfriend and principal among them -- knew Gaby was pretending to be pregnant for her senior project, a culminating assignment required for graduation.
Her teachers and fellow students, except for her best friend, didn't realize they were part of a social experiment.
Neither did six of her seven siblings -- including four older brothers -- her boyfriend's parents, and his five younger brothers and sisters.
"At times, I just wanted to take it off and be done," she says. "I didn't want to go through this anymore."
But Gaby didn't give up the charade until Wednesday morning, when she revealed her secret during an emotional, all-school assembly.
The topic of her presentation: "Stereotypes, rumors and statistics."
"Teenagers tend to live in the shadows of these elements," she says.
Before taking off her fake baby belly in front of the entire student body, Gaby told her audience, "Many things were said about me. Many things traveled all the way back to me."
Then, she asked several students and teachers to read statements from 3x5 cards, quotes people actually said about her during the course of her experiment.
Her best friend, Saida Cortes, a 17-year-old senior who was sitting in the front row, read card No. 3: "Her attitude is changing, and it might be because of the baby or she was always this annoying and I never realized it."
It grew quiet in the gym as more and more quotes were read aloud. Then Gaby dropped her bomb: "I'm fighting against those stereotypes and rumors because the reality is I'm not pregnant."
She had been nervous about how the crowd might react. After all, she had been lying to them since October.
"It 'happened' at homecoming," says principal Trevor Greene, making air quotes with his middle and index fingers at the word "happened."
"In essence, she gave up her senior year," he says. "She sacrificed her senior year to find out what it would be like to be a potential teen mom.
"I admire her courage. I admire her preparation. I give her mother a lot of credit for backing her up on this."
But, the principal continues, "I have a daughter that will be here next year, and I would not let her do it."
At first Gaby's mother wasn't sure what to make of the idea, either.
"I thought she was crazy," says 52-year-old Juana Rodriguez, adding it was difficult to lie to family members -- "It didn't feel good" -- but she felt she needed to support her daughter, who enlisted two mentors from Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital's Childbirth Education Program to help her with her project.
When Gaby approached Greene last spring, she says she worried he might say no. He says he was impressed with her determination. He also says he was "shocked."
"I heard her out," he says. "I listened to her presentation, her proposal. And then I went through all the difficulties I foresaw to making this happen."
People might talk about her behind her back. Her older brothers might want to beat up her boyfriend. And there might be backlash -- even broken relationships -- when students, teachers and family members learned the truth.
"None of that deterred her," Greene says, adding he felt he needed to get permission from superintendent John Cerna.
Cerna signed off. In fact, he left the west side of the state -- where he had been attending a conference -- at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday in order to get to Gaby's 10:15 a.m. presentation.
"I wouldn't miss this," Cerna says, adding, "It's amazing that a young lady would take this challenge on. It was a well-kept secret."
Gaby began wearing her homemade, basketball-sized, prosthetic belly to school after spring break. Before that, she wore baggy sweaters and sweatshirts to conceal her faux pregnancy.
Her supposed due date was July 27, not quite two months after graduation.
Gaby and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Jorge Orozco, met at the homecoming game when she was a freshman and he was a senior. They started dating just over three years ago.
When Gaby told him her plan, "I thought she was nuts," the 2009 Toppenish High School graduate says. "I thought I was going to end up getting into problems with her brothers. I didn't really want to get into problems with anybody."
But, "I was doing it for her," he says, adding, "My parents thought it was going to be a boy."
Gaby -- who has a grade-point average of 3.8 and serves as president of her school's MEChA, or Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, Club -- came up with the idea during her sophomore year Advanced Placement biology class with Shawn Myers. She's in his anatomy class this year.
"You saw the side comments and the looks at her stomach," says Myers, who says he wasn't disappointed -- "just concerned" -- when she told him she was pregnant.
He says he wondered: "How are we going to take all of the potential that's in this girl and make sure it manifests itself and not let this define who she is and let it be a roadblock to what she wants to accomplish?"
It's a question Hispanic teens are more likely to face than white teens, Gaby found in her research. Black and Hispanic teens continue to have higher pregnancy rates than white teens.
And most teens at Toppenish High School -- about 85 percent -- are Hispanic.
Gaby came clean to Myers and two other teachers, both women, Monday. The women, she says, seemed relieved.
Myers had a different reaction: "She kept talking, and it did not register. Then I just kind of leaned forward and said, 'Are you serious?' I told her, 'You've run a great value experiment. You couldn't tell anybody because you had to control the variables.'"
But, he says, "When you're running a social experiment, you're dealing with human emotions. The human person in me felt I had been lied to."
Wednesday, Gaby apologized to teachers and students for misleading them.
When she took off her baby belly, there were a few nervous giggles, and a loud, "Whaaaaat?!" from the audience.
Then, there was applause. And, at the end of the assembly, following a Q&A session, there was a standing ovation, the first one Greene says he remembers during his three-year tenure at Toppenish High School.
"She really fooled me. I never would've guessed it," says 17-year-old senior Vicente Villanueva. "I'm really surprised."
So was 19-year-old Angel Jalomo, a 2010 Davis High School graduate and Gaby's niece: "I didn't know what to say. I just started crying."
Gaby will present her research to a board of community members in May. It will include photos and video from Wednesday's assembly. And Gaby still needs to finish writing her report. But by revealing the project to students Wednesday, she can go on her English class trip to Ashland, Ore., on Friday without her baby belly.
Plus, she didn't want to be pregnant for prom. She already has her dress, a teal form-fitting mermaid gown with spaghetti straps.
Gaby plans to attend Columbia Basin College to study social work or sociology in the fall. And, she says, "I'm not planning to have a child until after I graduate."
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/04/20/pregnot-toppenish-high-student-fakes-pregnancy-as-social-test-about-stereotypes-rumorsGaby Rodriguez would worry whenever anyone asked to touch her baby bump.
It... more
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I have been observing the evolution of Haider Ackermann for several seasons, as he is one of my favorite new designers when it comes to womens’ clothing. In my humble opinion, his last two seasons in Paris outclassed all of the other Designers’ Women Collections by a long shot.I have been observing the evolution of Haider Ackermann for several seasons, as he is... more
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I have been observing the evolution of Haider Ackermann for several seasons, as he is one of my favorite new designers when it comes to womens’ clothing.I have been observing the evolution of Haider Ackermann for several seasons, as he is... more
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Commercials are making you go to the store and buy things and you don't even know it. This interview blows the lid off audible reciprocation and subliminal messages in commercials.Commercials are making you go to the store and buy things and you don't even know... more
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2011) — Marketing efforts that encourage mixing caffeinated "energy" drinks with alcohol often try to sway young people to believe that caffeine will offset the sedating effects of alcohol and increase alertness and stamina.
But a new study led by researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health and the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University has found that the addition of caffeine to alcohol -- mixing an energy drink with vodka, for example -- has no effect on enhancing performance on a driving test or improving sustained attention or reaction times.
"There appears to be little or no protective benefit from the addition of caffeine to alcohol, with respect to the safe execution of activities that require sustained attention with rapid, accurate decisions," says the study, published in the February edition of the journal Addiction.
"The results of this study suggest that public education, via media and warning labels, should be considered regarding the safety of CABs [caffeinated alcoholic beverages], and that regulators should scrutinize energy drink and CAB advertising as it relates to promoting safety-related expectancies."
The study, headed by Jonathan Howland, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH, comes amid increased government scrutiny of energy drinks, particularly when mixed with alcohol. Denmark has banned the sale of energy drinks, and the governments of Canada and Sweden have issued warnings about mixing energy drinks with alcohol.
In 2009, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a statement expressing concern about a lack of safety data on CABs, after survey results showed that the consumption of such beverages correlated with risky behavior among college students.
Howland and his co-authors note that while energy drink companies do not explicitly advertise that their products should be mixed with alcohol, "non-traditional youth-oriented marketing strategies" include claims that such drinks will "enhance attention, endurance, performance, weight loss, and fun, while reducing performance decrements from fatigue from alcohol."
In the new study, the research team randomized 129 participants, ages 21 to 30, into four groups: one group that consumed caffeinated beer; a second that consumed non-caffeinated beer; a third that consumed caffeinated non-alcoholic beer; and a fourth that consumed non-caffeinated, non-alcoholic beer. Those receiving alcohol attained an average blood alcohol level of .12 grams percent -- somewhat higher than 0.8 grams percent, the legal per se level for driving under the influence.
Thirty minutes after drinking, the participants were tested on a driving simulator and on a sustained attention/reaction time test.
The results indicate that caffeine does not mitigate the impairment effects of alcohol. On the driving test, the effect of alcohol on performance was significant -- but the addition of caffeine did not make a noticeable difference. On the test for sustained attention and reaction times, the addition of caffeine made only a slight difference that the study deemed "borderline significant."
Howland summed up the study results: "It is important that drinkers understand that adding caffeine to alcohol does not enhance safety."
Consumption of energy drinks mixed with alcohol has mushroomed since 2001, with some surveys showing that one in four college students report mixing the two. Some studies have found that caffeine reverses alcohol-related performance impairment on tests of reaction time, attention and psychomotor speed, but not on error rates. Other studies have found that caffeine does not significantly impact alcohol-induced impairment of motor coordination.
Howland said the new study was one of the first to provide "a controlled evaluation of the acute effects of caffeine on driving impairment" after drinking to intoxication levels. The institutional review boards of Boston Medical Center, Brown University and the University of Michigan approved the study.
In addition to Howland, researchers on the study include: Damaris J. Rohsenow of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University; J. Todd Arnedt of the Sleep and Chronophysiology Laboratory of the University of Michigan Medical School; Daniel J. Gottleib of the Boston University School of Medicine; and Caleb A. Bliss, Sarah K. Hunt, Tamara Vehige Calise, Timothy Heeren, Michael Winter and Caroline Littlefield, all of BUSPH.ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2011) — Marketing efforts that encourage mixing... more
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Two and a half men actor Charlie Sheen had something to say regarding the rumors about the string of recent events that have befallen him. Charlie Sheen took the opportunity to speak regarding his situation to E!.Two and a half men actor Charlie Sheen had something to say regarding the rumors about... more
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Rumors ran rampant recently that Hilary Duff has a bun in the oven, but the singer/actress has rubbished those reports, insisting that she is not pregnant with her first child.Rumors ran rampant recently that Hilary Duff has a bun in the oven, but the... more
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Macrumors today reported that they discovered images in the developer release of iOS 4.3 Beta 2 which confirm the existence of three new camera based Apple apps that are now said to debut with Apple's ...
http://bit.ly/eUXoCuMacrumors today reported that they discovered images in the developer release of iOS... more
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Rumors ran rampant recently that Sandra Bullock is dating recently divorced Ryan Reynolds. But the Hollywood actress has rubbished their romance rumors, saying the actor is just a friend whom she knows for over 10 years.Rumors ran rampant recently that Sandra Bullock is dating recently divorced Ryan... more
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One of the grimiest, grittiest, down-right over-the-top video games we've seen may be making a comeback. There are talks of a resurrection of the "Conker's Bad Fur Day" sequel, "Conker's Other Bad Day" or 'Getting Midieval.'
Rumor: http://gamingahead.com/rumor/view/id/56One of the grimiest, grittiest, down-right over-the-top video games we've seen... more
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Take this for what it's worth. The good news is that all we be finalized tomorrow night on Spike TV and the speculation will take a rest.
Full Story: http://gamingahead.com/rumor/view/id/55Take this for what it's worth. The good news is that all we be finalized tomorrow... more
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Gisele Dismisses subjected to rumors for kiss another man, after few photographs showing her really close to another man, other than her husband appeared overGisele Dismisses subjected to rumors for kiss another man, after few photographs... more
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